Terenty Quotes

#1. Terenty comes to them, makes the sign of the cross over them, and puts bread under their heads. And no one sees his love. It is seen only by the moon which floats in the sky and peeps caressingly through the holes in the wall of the deserted barn."
from "A Day in the Country

Anton Chekhov

#2. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Jacques Barzun

#3. I can't go back to being who I used to be!'
Hadley looked down at him sympathetically.
'None of us can, kid.' he said. 'That's the point. You get what you get. Life changes you. Time travel or no, you always have to build on what you live through.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#4. When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.

Fran Lebowitz

#5. When you see a good move, sit on your hands and see if you can find a better one.

Siegbert Tarrasch

#6. In a way, the web is like your Hollywood agent: It speaks for you whenever you are not around to comment

Chris Brogan

#7. When all are wrong, everyone is right.

Ed Koch

#8. Animals make good people. People make bad animals.

Brianna Genteman

#9. Jerome has merited hell rather than heaven for it-so little would I dare to recognize or call him a saint.

Martin Luther

#10. I don't believe the greatest views in the world are great because they are vast or exotic,' she said. 'I think their power comes from the knowledge that they do not change. You look at them and you know they have been the same for a thousand years.

Helen Simonson

#11. You're likable enough, Hillary.

Barack Obama